The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets d…

John Muir
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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. ✨ John Muir (2013). John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence, p.50, Island Press
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